Article February 9, 1918 Issue

One of the first evidences of spiritual awakening is often...

The Christian Science Monitor

One of the first evidences of spiritual awakening is often a revulsion against the stupidity of much ordinary human experience. This revulsion need not, however, be accompanied by any sense of despondency at the prospect of ever replacing such stupidity with intelligent alertness. The true revulsion is the vigorous movement of divine intelligence which sweeps all torpor before its infinite vitality.

Even when human thought, conceiving prosperity as a condition in which there is nothing much to do, has slipped into the narrowest rut of mere eating and sleeping, clothesbuying and gossip, sensuous enjoyment and utter vacancy, such a state must be but temporary. The unfoldment of Spirit can and does permeate and finally destroy every phase of human belief, from the intellectual to the obtuse, from the eccentrically overstrenuous to the totally inert. A castle of indolence itself has to fall sooner or later before the expression of Principle.

In one of her best known and best loved hymns (Poems, p. 14) Mrs. Eddy declares:—

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